Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Intimate Scandal of Norway’s New Literature — theculturetrip.com

Karl Ove Knausgaard, born in Oslo in 1968 as the younger son of a school teacher and a housewife, is the new phenomenom of 21st century´s literature. Compared to Marcel Proust and admired by contemporary writers such as Jeffrey Eugenides or Zadie Smith, the Norwegian writer has gained a privileged position among the greatest creators of the last decade due to his enormous masterpiece Min Kampf, ‘my struggle’ in English.

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